Comments on: Single Review: Darius Rucker, "Wagon Wheel"http://www.countryuniverse.net/2013/01/21/single-review-darius-rucker-wagon-wheel/
Est. 2004Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:13:49 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7By: Dan Millikenhttp://www.countryuniverse.net/2013/01/21/single-review-darius-rucker-wagon-wheel/#comment-1385421
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:28:26 +0000http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=23686#comment-1385421Same. Like I said in the review, this was destined to be a big hit at retail (fortunately it’s been one at radio, too), and I’m excited for the example it sets. Even though I don’t love the recording, you won’t hear me complain if it wins Single of the Year, and certainly not if it wins Song.
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:43:25 +0000http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=23686#comment-1383679Agreed on all accounts, Leeann.
]]>By: Leeann Wardhttp://www.countryuniverse.net/2013/01/21/single-review-darius-rucker-wagon-wheel/#comment-1381985
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:13:35 +0000http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=23686#comment-1381985Despite the flaws with this record, I’m pleased that something so country has gone #1 on the charts. Hopefully, this will become a trend. Maybe it’ll even help to lessen Darius’ fear of being as country as he’s stated that he’d like to be.
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Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:26:13 +0000http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=23686#comment-1348694Even though this song has been cut many times, I just have an issue with Darius’s timing of the release coming off Old Crow’s success with it. Rucker apparently didn’t even know the song until he heard it at his kids school talent show. With that said he does a great job with the song. To me it’s a bit of a rip off but like I said, I know it wasnt Old Crow’s song either.
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Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:01:19 +0000http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=23686#comment-1347181This is a great song! It brings back that old bluegrass style harmony. Check out the Cumberland Highlanders show on RFD and you will hear how they utilize the backup vocals to bring depth to a song. Lady A and Rucker nailed it.
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Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:05:15 +0000http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=23686#comment-1320180Funny….. Dont dislike it at all. Actually, i thought it was Jo Dee Messina backng him and i got xcite thinking she me be constructing a ressurection. That sure would be nice !
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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:03:47 +0000http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=23686#comment-1318595A great song made better! Dan, you missed it. What an outstanding job DR and LA did with the Wagon Wheel cover. I rank it up there with Don McLean’s “American Pie”.
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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:25:58 +0000http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=23686#comment-1297134This is a brilliant song. D Ruck sounds fantastic. He brings a swing a different element to the song. His chorus is passionate and true. Darius Rucker has a thunder bolt for a voice and this diddy with his groove is a Hit. Hillary Sounds great. She is subtle yet soulful and present.

Catchy and soulfully sung. I sing along every time.
As “Hesch” said in The Sopranos, … “A hit is a hit”. This song is a hit. And with all due respect to Ketch for writing great lyrics to a catchy, unshakeable, Bob Dylan chorus, Darius and Lady A put out one Hit of a song that is better than the original.

]]>By: Tomhttp://www.countryuniverse.net/2013/01/21/single-review-darius-rucker-wagon-wheel/#comment-1295987
Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:51:08 +0000http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=23686#comment-1295987…no way that this ain’t ending up as big hit – it is just too catchy and darius rucker does a good job with it.

interestingly, the banjo seems to be back with a vengeance in “today’s country”. gone seem the days that this instrument, which i’m not particularly keen of – it’s the coriander of musical instruments and requires subtle application in order not to overpower everything else – served mostly as a fig leaf for keith urban to connect his sound a little stronger to country music. probably more awareness of the old sound than urban created the band perry in recent years, for whom banjo and mandoline ladden tunes were their key to earn nashville stardom.

why not? just bear the coriander-thing in mind nashville, will you, please.

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Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:16:07 +0000http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=23686#comment-1295905I think you’ll find that Clay Underwood has the best cover of this song, his wonderful voice has just the right amount of twang to pull it off.
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